Venus Transit Watch

[GreenEarth]

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/tran/TOV2012-Fig01.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus

So this is happening today, and it wont happen again until 2117. Basically Venus crosses the sun and you see a small black spot on the sun during daylight hours. Now I'm not sure exactly when its happening, for me it will happen later today near sunset. Anyone on the west coast it will happen earlier I think, and you will have a better view of it.

I'm gonna try to take a picture of it with a telephoto lens and really fast aperture speed but I doubt anything good will come out of it as I don't have any filters :/ also I don't want the camera sensor to be damaged or anything. I dunno
http://photo.net/learn/nature/sunmoon
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47667683/ns/technology_and_science-space/#.T85MyNWXSf4

EDIT: ok so like I'm messing around outside trying to get the camera ready etc for the sun. Then I started messing around with projecting the sun on paper with a telescope then a magnifying glass, and I accidently burned a hole through my sock with the magnifying glass ._.

 

[99SOR]

Really excited for this

 

[Patchouli]

EDIT: ok so like I'm messing around outside trying to get the camera ready etc for the sun. Then I started messing around with projecting the sun on paper with a telescope then a magnifying glass, and I accidently burned a hole through my sock with the magnifying glass ._.

Telescope then a magnifying glass...with the sun...
...What did you think would happen?

 

[GreenEarth]

ok its started
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/18709236/safely-view-the-transit-of-venus-tonight

Telescope then a magnifying glass...with the sun...
...What did you think would happen?

Yeah it was painful, my socks are like synthetic and it melted to my skin :O

 

[GreenEarth]

Well these are the only ones that came out ok. I had to crop and resize them a bit.

This one my friend took.